Nikolaus P. Himmelmann
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Nikolaus P. Himmelmann's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of Cologne
- Masters Linguistics University of Cologne
- Bachelors Linguistics University of Cologne
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann is a German linguist. His interests include linguistic typology, grammar, prosody, and linguistic documentation. He obtained his doctorate at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1986 and habilitation at the University of Cologne in 1995. From 1996 to 1998, he was a research fellow at the Australian National University. Afterwards, he was a professor at Ruhr University in Bochum and at Westphalian Wilhelms-University in Münster . In 2010, he was appointed Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Cologne.
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann's Published Works
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- Documentary and descriptive linguistics (1998) (537)
- Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse: A Taxonomy of Universal Uses (1996) (277)
- Essentials of language documentation (2006) (248)
- The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar (2004) (224)
- Deiktikon, Artikel, Nominalphrase : zur Emergenz syntaktischer Struktur (1997) (202)
- Lexicalisation and grammaticalization: Opposite or orthogonal? (2004) (191)
- The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar: Typological characteristics (2005) (180)
- Chapter 1 Language documentation: What is it and what is it good for? (2006) (178)
- What makes grammaticalization? : a look from its fringes and its components (2004) (142)
- Depictive secondary predicates in crosslinguistic perspective (2004) (110)
- Lexical categories and voice in Tagalog (2003) (92)
- Secondary Predication and Adverbial Modification (2005) (88)
- Asymmetries in the prosodic phrasing of function words: Another look at the suffixing preference (2014) (80)
- Reproduction and Preservation of Linguistic Knowledge: Linguistics' Response to Language Endangerment (2008) (61)
- Issues in the syntax and semantics of participant-oriented adjuncts: an introduction. (2005) (59)
- Regularity in irregularity: Article use in adpositional phrases (1998) (58)
- Linguistic Data Types and the Interface between Language Documentation and Description (2012) (57)
- Prosodic Description: An Introduction for Fieldworkers (2008) (52)
- Grammaticalization without coevolution of form and meaning: The case of tense-aspect in East and mainland Southeast Asia (2004) (36)
- Secondary predication and adverbial modification : the typology of depictives (2005) (33)
- Grammaticalization v. pragmaticaliuation? The development of pragmatic markers in German and Italian (2004) (32)
- Renewal: A figure of speech or a process sui generis? (2017) (30)
- Chapter 5 The ethnography of language and language documentation (2006) (30)
- Alexandria und der Realismus in der griechischen KunstL'eta d'oro di Cleopatra: indagine sulla Tazza Farnese (1984) (28)
- What makes grammaticalization? An appraisal of its components and its frings (2004) (27)
- The evolution of passives as grammatical constructions in Northern Slavic and Baltic languages (2004) (24)
- On the universality of intonational phrases: a cross-linguistic interrater study (2018) (23)
- A journey through Austronesian and Papuan linguistic and cultural space : papers in honour of Andrew Pawley (2010) (21)
- The Lack of Zero Anaphora and Incipient Person Marking in Tagalog (1999) (21)
- Chapter 10 The challenges of segmenting spoken language (2006) (20)
- On the perception of prosodic prominences and boundaries in Papuan Malay (2018) (19)
- Die homerischen Gruppen und ihre Bildquellen (1995) (19)
- Documentary and Descriptive Linguistics (full version) (2002) (19)
- Über Hirten-Genre in der antiken Kunst (1980) (19)
- Chapter 9. Retelling data: Working on transcription (2011) (19)
- Morphosyntax und Morphologie : die Ausrichtungsaffixe im Tagalog (1987) (19)
- The role of predicate meaning in the devekopment of reflexivity (2004) (18)
- Language endangerment scenarios: A case study from northern Central Sulawesi (2008) (17)
- Sourcebook on Tomini-Tolitoli languages : general information and word lists (2004) (16)
- How universal is agent-first? Evidence from symmetrical voice languages (2019) (15)
- Potentials of language documentation: methods, analyses, and utilization (2012) (15)
- Archäologisches zum Problem der griechischen Sklaverei (1971) (15)
- Modals and the boundaries of grammaticalization: the case of Russian, Polish and Serbian-Croatian (2004) (14)
- Symmetrical Voice and Applicative Alternations: Evidence from Totoli (2013) (14)
- Meeting the transcription challenge (2018) (13)
- New Directions in Field Linguistics: Training Strategies for Language Documentation in Indonesia (2009) (13)
- Ideale Nacktheit in der griechischen Kunst (1990) (12)
- Notes on “Noun Phrase Structure” in Tagalog (2016) (12)
- Some preliminary observations on prosody and information structure in Austronesian languages of Indonesia and East Timor (2017) (11)
- Demonstratives in Narrative Discourse (1996) (10)
- The rise of an indefinite article: The case of Macedonian eden (2004) (10)
- The extent and degree of utterance-final word lengthening in spontaneous speech from 10 languages (2021) (8)
- Papers in Austronesian subgrouping and dialectology (2004) (8)
- Chapter 2 Ethics and practicalities of cooperative fieldwork and analysis (2006) (8)
- STRESS PREDICTORS IN A PAPUAN MALAY RANDOM FOREST (2019) (8)
- Lóvaia: an East Timorese language on the verge of extinction (2003) (7)
- Using Rapid Prosody Transcription to probe little-known prosodic systems: The case of Papuan Malay (2020) (7)
- Grammaticalization via extending derivation (2004) (7)
- How to miss a paradigm or two: Multifunctional ma- in Tagalog (2004) (7)
- Repetition Reduction Revisited: The Prosody of Repeated Words in Papuan Malay (2020) (6)
- Chapter 3 Fieldwork and community language work (2006) (6)
- On Statives and Potentives in Western Austronesian (Mostly Tagalog) (2014) (6)
- Shifting from animacy to agentivity (2018) (5)
- Tieropfer in der griechischen Kunst (1997) (5)
- Herrscher und Athlet : die Bronzen vom Quirinal (1990) (5)
- Alexandria und der Realismus in der griechischen Kunst (1985) (5)
- Zum Aufbau von Sprachbeschreibungen (1996) (5)
- Plenary: Linguistic data types and documentary linguistics (2009) (5)
- Reading Greek Art (1998) (5)
- Prosodic phrasing and the emergence of phrase structure (2022) (4)
- Grammaticalization the derivational way: The Russian aspectual prefixes po-, za-, ot- (2004) (4)
- On the robustness of intonational phrases in spontaneous speech – a cross ‐ linguistic interrater study (2016) (4)
- What about typology is useful for language documentation? (2016) (4)
- Chapter 14 Linguistic documentation and the encoding of textual materials (2006) (4)
- Against trivializing language description (and comparison) (2021) (4)
- Utopische Vergangenheit : Archäologie und moderne Kultur (1976) (4)
- Sperlonga: Die homerischen Gruppen und ihre Bildquellen (2002) (3)
- Über einige gegenständliche bedeutungsmöglichkeiten des frühgriechischen ornaments (1968) (3)
- Chapter 8 Ethnography in language documentation (2006) (3)
- Chapter 4 Data and language documentation (2006) (2)
- Über bildende Kunst in der homerischen Gesellschaft (1969) (2)
- Der Ausruhende Herakles (2009) (2)
- Chapter 15 Thick interfaces:Mobilizing language documentation with multimedia (2006) (2)
- Chapter 13 Archiving challenges (2006) (2)
- Predicting voice choice in symmetrical voice languages (2021) (2)
- Klassische Archäologie: kritische anmerkungen zur methode (2000) (2)
- Repetition reduction in Papuan Malay prosody (2018) (2)
- Speech Analytics in Research Based on Qualitative Interviews (2018) (2)
- Explorations of the Syntax-Semantics Interface (2016) (2)
- Notes on Tagalog nominalism (2009) (1)
- The many ways of transitivization in Totoli (2021) (1)
- Time-series analysis of F0 in Papuan Malay contrastive focus (2020) (1)
- Cross-linguistic patterns in the lexicalisation of bring and take (2022) (1)
- Chapter 11 Some preliminary observations on prosody and information structure in Austronesian languages of Indonesia and East Timor (2018) (1)
- Chapter 11 Orthography development (2006) (1)
- Festschrift fur Friedrich Matz (1964) (1)
- Grammaticisation processes and reanalyses in Sulawesi languages (2017) (1)
- Chapter 7 Prosody in language documentation (2006) (1)
- Limited-Control Predicates in Western Austronesia: Stative, Dynamic, or None of the Above? (2022) (0)
- Audio Mining für die Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften: Nutzungsszenarien und Herausforderungen (2018) (0)
- Book Reviews (2000) (0)
- Phonemic contrasts: whai_w'ai_wai (2002) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS (1968) (0)
- Effizientere Fahrausweispruefung: Ertragssituation der Verkehrsunternehmen laesst sich nachhaltig verbessern / A More Efficient Ticket-Inspection-Service (2002) (0)
- Sama (Bajau) Akamine Jun (2004) (0)
- Phonemic contrasts: mh vs m (2002) (0)
- Realistic art in Alexandria (1983) (0)
- Antike zwischen Kommerz und Wissenschaft 25 Jahre Erwerbungen für das Akademische Kunstmuseum Bonn (1994) (0)
- 5 Zur Typologie adnominal grammatikalisierter D-Elemente (1997) (0)
- Greek ArtReading Greek Art. Essays by Nikolaus HimmelmannRegional Schools in Hellenistic SculptureArt and the Early Greek State. An Interpretive Archaeology (2001) (0)
- Greek ArtReading Greek Art. Essays by Nikolaus HimmelmannRegional Schools in Hellenistic SculptureArt and the Early Greek State. An Interpretive Archaeology (2001) (0)
- Fish names (based on poster) (2005) (0)
- 3 Zu Semantik und Pragmatik von D-Elementen (1997) (0)
- Olívia - song2 with tebetebe (2002) (0)
- Obituary (1962) (0)
- Chapter 6 Documenting lexical knowledge (2006) (0)
- «Aufruf zum Totengedächtnis»: Zur religiösen Motivation attischer Grabreliefs (1999) (0)
- Ansichten von Sperlonga (1996) (0)
- KA3: Speech Analytics for Oral History and the Language Sciences (2017) (0)
- Red and blue bananas: Time-series f0 analysis of contrastively focused noun phrases in Papuan Malay and Dutch (2023) (0)
- Notes on “Noun Phrase Structure” in Tagalog1 (2015) (0)
- Verzeichnis der Abbildungen und Tabellen (1997) (0)
- Linguistics (1997) (0)
- Phonemic contrasts: wh vs w (2002) (0)
- Suku foun: Day2, second part (2003) (0)
- Abkürzungen und Siglen (1997) (0)
- Weniger Schwarzfahrer in Krefeld: Erfahrungen mit einem Konzept zur Verbesserung des Pruefdienstes / Decreasing Loss of Ticket Revenues (2004) (0)
- The Georg von der Gabelentz Award 2009 (2011) (0)
- Kunst und Altertum am Rhein. 19. Antiken aus dem akademischen Kunstmuseum Bonn@@@Das akademische Kunstmuseum der Universitat Bonn (1974) (0)
- Zwei pergamenische Ornamentplatten in Istanbul (2004) (0)
- Suku foun: Day1, first part (2003) (0)
- Visiting Degu-Kai (2002) (0)
- Mittelalter und Renaissance (1985) (0)
- IDEOPHONES AS DEPICTIVE SECONDARY PREDICATES (2004) (0)
- Shots of archaeological dig (2005) (0)
- Feldforschungsberichte von GBS-Mitgliedern Eine bedrohte Sprache in Osttimor (2011) (0)
- Helden und Heroen (2009) (0)
- Talking to Degu-Kai (2002) (0)
- 4 Zur Emergenz nominaler Syntagmen (1997) (0)
- Relating agent prominence to discourse prominence: DO-clefts in German (2022) (0)
- Sifting for archaelogical remains, while reading Waima'a booklets (2005) (0)
- Materialien zur Physiognomie des Heros (2009) (0)
- Chapter 9 Linguistic annotation (2006) (0)
- On the comparability of prosodic categories: why ‘stress’ is difficult (2022) (0)
- Perspectives on Subgrouping and Dialectology: an introduction (2004) (0)
- Phonemic contrasts: lh vs l (2002) (0)
- Olívia: post song conversatio (2002) (0)
- Antike zwischen Kommerz und Wissenschaft (1994) (0)
- Die private Bildnisweihung bei den Griechen Zu den Ursprüngen des abendländischen Porträts (2001) (0)
- Uniform Density in Linguistic Information Derived from Dependency Structures (2022) (0)
- Conversation between MB and Ria (2002) (0)
- Secondary predicates in Eastern European languages and beyond, edited by Christoph Schroeder, Gerd Hentschel & Winfried Boeder (2011) (0)
- Makassar Anthony Jukes (2004) (0)
- Pear story by Yoel Tibul (2013) (0)
- Colloquial Indonesian Michael C. Ewing (2004) (0)
- Suku foun: Day2, first part (2003) (0)
- Chapter 12 Sketch grammar (2006) (0)
- Phonemic contrasts: th vs t (2002) (0)
- Space games1: Geraldo and Edi (2005) (0)
- Three-participant events project – Encoding Strategies (2020) (0)
- A life of polysynthesis: Hans-Jürgen Sasse (1943–2015) (2015) (0)
- Pear story by Simson Yalak (2013) (0)
- Pear film: Bendita2 (2004) (0)
- Exploring grammaticalization from below (2004) (0)
- Lexicon Discovery for Language Preservation using Unsupervised Word Segmentation with Pitman-Yor Language Models (FGNT-2015-01) (2015) (0)
- MB and Ria teaching NH (2002) (0)
- Constantion's take on archeological excavation (2005) (0)
- 25. Grammaticisation processes and reanalyses in Sulawesi languages (2020) (0)
- Phonemic contrasts: whai_wa'i_wai (2002) (0)
- Attempts to communicate with kids (2005) (0)
- Limited-Control Predicates In Western Austronesia: Stative, Dynamic, Or None Of The Above? (2021) (0)
- Antike Götter im Mittelalter@@@Antike Gotter im Mittelalter (1988) (0)
- Die literarische Diskussion (1985) (0)
- Sifting for archaelogical remains (2005) (0)
- Old Malay Waruno Mahdi (2004) (0)
- 2 Grammatikalisierungstheoretische Grundlagen (1997) (0)
- Modifizierte Folgekostenrechnung: Planung und Bewertung der Wirkungen von Grossinvestitionen auf Cashflow und Betriebsergebnis / Modified Integrated Economical Calculation (2003) (0)
- Phonemic contrasts: nh vs n (2002) (0)
- Grundlagen der griechischen Pflanzendarstellung (2005) (0)
- Suku foun: Day1, second part (2003) (0)
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